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Society
311 counties to pilot China’s hospital reform
BEIJING, June 26 (Xinhua) — China has nominated 311 counties or county-level cities in a program to pilot reform of the country’s public healthcare facilities, the Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday. The national initiative includes 83 counties or county-level cities in east China, 136 in central China and 92…
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Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation Sold At $2 Mil.
This undated photo provided by Seth Kaller, Inc., shows a rare original copy of President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation which sold Tuesday, June 26, 2012, at a New York auction for more than $2 million. It’s the second-highest price ever paid for a Lincoln-signed proclamation – after one owned by…
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People Fight Against Flooded Water In India
Flood affected people carry a gas cylinder on a makeshift banana raft as flood water is being pumped across a protective boom, in Gauhati, India, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. Flooding in the north eastern Assam state on Tuesday turned grim with most of the rivers breaching embankments and inundating new…
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Mexican Doctors Succeed In Removing 15-kg Tumor of 2yr Kid
In this still image taken from an undated video released by the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) on Tuesday, June 26, 2012, an image created through medical imaging technology shows an X-ray-like image of 2-year-old Jesus Rodriguez, prior to having a benign tumor removed from his body. Mexican doctors successfully…
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East Asia
Foreign Journalists Feel What Division Is At DMZ
Foreign journalists pose with a military police when they visited Dorasan Station, located nearest to the DMZ dividing South and North Korea, in Paju, Geyong-gi province, as part of their DMZ tour Sunday (June 24). The foreign journalists visited Seoul to attend the International Media Conference held at Yonsei University on June 22-24.…
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Ugandan Woman Looks For Her Children Lost In Landslide
A woman cries for her four children she lost in a landslide in Bududa, about 250kms east of Uganda capital Kampala Tuesday June 26, 2012. Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda Monday, killing scores of people officials said.…
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East Asia
NK Military Band Comforts Farmers With Music
In this photo taken Wednesday, June 6, 2012, North Korean military band members perform for peasants working on a field in Hwanggumpyong, near the border town of Sinuiju in North Korea seen from across the border with China in Dandong, northeastern China’s Liaoning province. <AP/NEWSis> news@theasian.asia
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East Asia
Hu Talks With Chinese Astronauts In Space
Scientists sit in front of a screen showing the Chinese astronauts who are conducting scientific tests in Tiangong-1 space lab module talking to Chinese President Hu Jintao at the Beijing Aerospace Control Center in Beijing, capital of China, on June 26, 2012. Hu came to the Beijing Aerospace Control Center…
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Tropical Storm Hits Tampa Bay Area
A truck hangs over the edge of a sinkhole that opened up in the parking lot of Hughes Relocation Services, Monday, June 25, 2012, in Salt Springs, Fla. Tropical Storm Debby raked the Tampa Bay area with high wind and heavy rain Monday in a drenching that could top 2…
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South Asia
Shrine Fire Causes Anti-India Protest In Kashmir
Kashmiri residents watch as firefighters try to extinguish a fire at the nearly 200-years-old Sheikh Abdul Qadir Jeelani Shrine, popularly known as Ghaus-e-Azam, or Dastgeer Sahab, in downtown Srinagar, India, Monday, June 25, 2012. Anti-India clashes between protesters and government forces erupted in the main city in Indian-controlled Kashmir Monday…
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